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What's the most ridiculous bluff you pulled in a job interview, and it somehow completely worked?

I'll go first to get this started, i once listed "advanced proficiency in Kubernetes" on my resume for a role i really needed. i had watched maybe 4-5 youtube videos on it the night before,and the interviewer asked me to walk through my most complex deployment. i spent 45 seconds confidently describing the architecture of a tutorial project like it was production infrastructure i personally built and owned haha

i got the job i spent the next 2 weeks actually learning kubernetes. they never foun

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